• من البحر إلى النهر@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I’m surprised it is this low.

    Edit: the comments are hell. But what else to except from propagandized westerners that never cared to know from Arabs.

    I wish our leaders had a sense of shame or honour, instead many of them are collaborators.

    “If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?” David Ben-Gurion (the first Israeli Prime Minister): Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp121.

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      10 months ago

      Not to be pedantic but I’d to clarify one aspect that not many people know.

      He was right, except for one. At least from the perspective of those Muslim Arab leaders:

      Our God is not theirs.

      Islam is an Abrahamic religion, regarded by the Muslim as a continuation of the Abrahamic religions before it. So the muslim regard themselves as having the same god as the Jews and the Christians. Thus, the prophets of the Jewish religion (and even the prophets of the Christianity, Jesus) are also regarded as prophets in Islam. Many of them are mentioned in Quran in good faith. The main difference is the jewish doesn’t recognize Muhammad as their prophet while the Muslim regards Muhammad as the last prophet in addition to those before him.